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HBO has set a January premiere date for drama series The Outsider, based on Stephen King's bestselling novel. The 10-episode series will debut with back-to-back episodes at 9 and 10 PM, Sunday, January 12. It hails from The Night Of co-creator/executive producer Richard Price, director-executive producer Andrew…

EXCLUSIVE: Derek Cecil (House of Cards) and Jamestown star Max Beesley are set to recur opposite Ben Mendelsohn in The Outsider, based on Stephen King's bestselling novel, from The Night Of co-creator/executive producer Richard Price, director-producer Jack Bender (Mr. Mercedes) Jason Bateman's Aggregate Films and…

Gravitas Ventures has picked up the U.S. distribution rights to Above The Shadows (f.k.a Shadow Girl), a supernatural tale starring Olivia Thirlby, Alan Ritchson, Jim Gaffigan, Maria Dizzia, Tito Ortiz, David Johansen, and Megan Fox. Claudia Myers wrote and directed the pic, which Gravitas will release in limited…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Bernstein (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) has been tapped to direct several episodes and serve as executive producer on HBO’s supernatural drama series The Outsider, based on Stephen King's bestselling novel, with Ben Mendelsohn set to star and produce. The project hails from The Night Of…

HBO has cast eight series regulars and two actors to recur opposite Ben Mendelsohn in The Outsider, based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel. Cynthia Erivo (Bad Times at the El Royale), Bill Camp (The Looming Tower), Mare Winningham (George Wallace), Paddy Considine (The Ferryman), Julianne Nicholson (Law & Order True…

HBO has given a series order to supernatural drama The Outsider, based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, with Ben Mendelsohn set to star and produce. The project, which marks Mendelsohn’s return to TV following his Emmy-winning turn on Bloodline, hails from The Night Of co-creator/executive producer Richard Price…

EXCLUSIVE: Media Rights Capital is back in business with Stephen King, its partner on The Dark Tower. MRC has optioned the Stephen King #1 bestselling novel The Outsider. MRC plans a 10-episode limited series adaptation, and they have secured Richard Price to write it. Jack Bender and Marty Bowen are exec producing…

Sometimes you fight the current, other times you go with the flow, or words to that effect are passed along in this trailer for Netflix’s The Outsider, arriving next month. And judging by the action in this post-WWII crime drama, looks like Jared Leto does more fighting the current that drifting the flow. In post-WWII…

NBC has given a script commitment plus penalty to The Outsider, a legal drama thriller from The Art of More creator Chuck Rose, husband/wife producing duo Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, and Universal TV. Written/executive produced by Rose, The Outsider is a legal thriller set in the powerful but often secretive…

Xander Berkeley, Shea Whigham, Wynn Everett, and Toby Huss have been added to the cast of LAbyrinth, the Tupac-Biggie crime drama that stars Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker. Brad Furman is directing the film, which commenced production today in Los Angeles. Christian Contreras adapted the screenplay from Randall…

Jared Leto, who won an Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club, is set to star in action thriller The Outsider for director Martin Zandvliet's (Land of Mine). Written by Andrew Baldwin (Bastille Day), the project set in post-WWII Japan is aiming to go before the cameras this fall. The Outsider tells the story of an imprisoned…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is negotiating with Safe House helmer Daniel Espinosa to helm The Outsider, a gritty action film scripted by Andrew Baldwin. The protagonist is a POW in Osaka in WWII who goes to work for the Yakuza. Sons of Anarchy producers Art and John Linson are producing. Espinosa, who helmed Snabba Cash…